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Guy de Maupassant's Selected Works (Norton Critical Editions)

Guy de Maupassant

4.1/5 ( ratings)

“Smith successfully captures Maupassant’s depiction of nineteenth-century French culture using terminology that allows these wonderful texts to reach a fresh generation of readers. A solid translation of some wonderful short stories.”

—Library Journal

The Norton Critical Edition includes:

- Thirty of Maupassant’s best short stories centering on war, the supernatural, and French life, translated by Sandra Smith.

- An introduction and explanatory footnotes by Robert Lethbridge.

- Essays, letters, and newspaper articles on the subjects that influenced Maupassant’s writing, including politics, war, love,

despair, and the supernatural.

- Sixteen critical assessments from Maupassant’s time to our own, including those by Joseph Conrad, David Coward, Mary

Donaldson-Evans, Rachel Killick, Roger L. Williams, Ruth A. Hottell, and Katherine C. Kurk.

- A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

Language: English

Pages: 448

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Release: August 27, 2016

Guy de Maupassant's Selected Works (Norton Critical Editions)

Guy de Maupassant

4.1/5 ( ratings)

“Smith successfully captures Maupassant’s depiction of nineteenth-century French culture using terminology that allows these wonderful texts to reach a fresh generation of readers. A solid translation of some wonderful short stories.”

—Library Journal

The Norton Critical Edition includes:

- Thirty of Maupassant’s best short stories centering on war, the supernatural, and French life, translated by Sandra Smith.

- An introduction and explanatory footnotes by Robert Lethbridge.

- Essays, letters, and newspaper articles on the subjects that influenced Maupassant’s writing, including politics, war, love,

despair, and the supernatural.

- Sixteen critical assessments from Maupassant’s time to our own, including those by Joseph Conrad, David Coward, Mary

Donaldson-Evans, Rachel Killick, Roger L. Williams, Ruth A. Hottell, and Katherine C. Kurk.

- A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

Language: English

Pages: 448

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Release: August 27, 2016

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